The paper presents a new adaptive full reference method for quality measurement of image enhancement algorithms. The method is based on the analysis of basic edges—sharp edges which are distant from another edges. The proposed basic edges metrics calculates error values in two areas related to typical artifacts of image enhancement algorithms: basic edges area and basic edges neighborhood. The metrics are illustrated with an application to image resampling and image deblurring but it is also applicable for image deringing and image denoising.